Georgia House Education Committee
The GA House Education Committee (chaired by Dubose Porter, D-143) met
on July 29. It turned out the agenda was limited to studying how homeschoolers
entering college for their first year could qualify for the HOPE scholarship
using Governor Miller's "B" average criteria. The Committee is seeking ideas of
how to accomplish this.
The Committee convened again on December 10 to further study homeschooling and
Georgia homeschooling laws.
Reports about both meetings are provided below.
Here are the Home Study related House bills:
HB586:
Full text - Summary - imposes new restrictions.
HB486:
Full text - Summary - diplomas for home study students; officials musn't ask for excess info. on reporting forms.
HOPE Scholarships Bills:
HB31 Full text -
HB90 Full text -
HB1059 Full text -
Summary of all three bills
In preliminary conversations with Rep. Porter and other members of the committee,
several "concerns" have been identified, and HEIR has been asked
to address these concerns from the perspective of homeschoolers:
- How can the State insure that homeschoolers are not just "legal
truants", i.e., that they are, in fact, schooling at home?
- What is an appropriate mechanism for homeschoolers to qualify for the
HOPE scholarship?
- How successful are homeschoolers in post-secondary education?
What had been planned as the Initial HEIR Statement to
the Committee.
Content of HEIR Briefing Book
What Homeschoolers Can Do
If you have suggestions regarding the response to these issues, or other
issues that you think should be brought before the House Education Committee,
email us.
Members
of the House Education Committee
(note: you can find biosketches for most members by following their links)
Meeting Schedule
HEIR's Reports on Meetings
This report was contributed by Leon McGinnis and John Sewell.
12/11/97 added Dec 10 meeting
11/22/97 updated
7/30/97 updated
© 1997 HEIR